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A72872	Margariton A rich treasure discovered of problemes and their resolves. In three parts. Amorous. Naturall Morall and politique. Faithfully translated out of French, for the profit and delight of the ingenious English of both sexes; to serve as a usefull helpe in their discourse.; Delectable demaundes, and pleasaunt questions, with their severall aunswers, in matters of love, naturall causes, with morall and politique devises.	Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Quattro libri di dubbi. English. Adaptations.; Painter, William, 1540?-1594.; T. S.; Rawlins, Thomas, 1620?-1670, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 17328; ESTC S123205	97,378	368

to see that ●●hich they love to love another Q. Who is most jealous the man or 〈◊〉 woman and which of them hath ●●eatest occasion A. The woman is most jealous but ●●e man hath the greater occasion the ●●eason thereof and the cause I will keep ●●lent for this time Q. Is the Iealous person blind or ●●ath hee a good judgement to force 〈…〉 A. If Jealousie be moderate it shar●●eneth both the judgement and sight in ●●ch wise as it seeth and knoweth all ●●ut if it exceed it is more confuse and ●●lind then a Moule Q. Whom doth Iealousie become or ●●hom doth it not become A. Iealousie is not comely in him that ●●ath experience of the faithfulnesse of 〈◊〉 is Lady but Jealousie is not uncomely 〈◊〉 him that is a new Lover Q. Think you that where love is grea●●● there Iealousie may be great also A. Many doe thinke the contrar●● because that the vehemency of lo●● doth so transport the person that he●● never separated from the thing that 〈◊〉 loveth Q. Were it good for them that 〈◊〉 Iealous to dye without cause in th●●● rage what should they feare more A. It should be well imployed Q. Whereof commeth Iealousie A. Of envie and love Q. Is the Iealous man without judg●ment A. Not alwayes considering th●● most commonly the scapes of Ladie● are discovered and hee is very blin● that cannot perceive them Q. What is the property of Iealousie A. It is to serve a thousand deaths 〈◊〉 prepare embushments for the honour●● Ladies and to mingle in the middest 〈◊〉 other pleasures poysons mischiefes a●● hatreds Q. Doe ye thinke that Love doth one●ly intrap the light and tender hearts A. I doe thinke that it intrappeth all ●nd there is none that is able to shut the ●gate against him Q. Is it possible that a noble spirit for 〈◊〉 small matter may be entrapped A. I beleeve that it may for every gentle spirit for each little trifle is enflamed whose noble and gentle mind is subject to Love Q. Is it sufferable to falsifie●faith in ●ove A. Why not sith it is nourished onely with deceit treason and falshood Q. Is the service of Love more trouble some then others A. In effect it is more weighty and troublesome but in will much more easie to be disgested Q. What is it that pacifieth Lovers in their greatest travell A. It is hope Q. Wherefore doe they faine Love to be tyed to a pillar of Iaspper with a chaine of a Diamond and To pace dipped in the floud Lethe A. To provoke women to be pudike and chast and to turne their eyes from the wanton allurements which the●● Lovers doe use towards them Q. Should the ingrate or vnkind w●●man be beloved A. No because there cannot be foun●● a worse vice then ingratitude Where●fore we ought to deeme her wholly transformed into the nature of brut●● Beasts Q. Which is the truest service i●● Love A. A stedfast and a constant faith Q. The Lover that is loved is he 〈◊〉 Servant or a Master A. He is rather a Servant then a Master for so much as he is clogged with a double chaine To love and to be loved by two chaines although that the one be voluntary and the other by necessity Q. Doe you thinke that a woman without the prejudice and hurt of honor may satisfie one that hath served her a long time and season A. J dare not say without prejudice But yet I will affirme that she is to be excused if she give him some ●ase that hath long and faithfully served her Q. Which is the greatest ingratitude that may chance in love A. Not to reward at all his Services Q. Why is the service of Love worthy of greater rewards then other A. Because the longer one continueth therein the greater bitternesse he endureth and suffereth Q. Thinke ye that Love hath placed his principall treasure in women A. J beleeve so because it hath given them the Soveraignty above all men Q. Who is the most fortunate in love the Attendant or the possessor A. The possessor hath one contentation but the attendant hath more then a thousand Q. Is Love the cause of good or evill A. Of good seeing he maketh fooles wise Q. Why doe men say that Love is a perfect Musitian A. Because hee tuneth the spirit●● and affections which before had no●● agreement Q. Why doe men say that a faire woman is a monster in beauty A. Because it is as rare thing as Monsters be Q. Doe Courtizans love or doe they faine to love A. There be many reasons to say that they love not but experience teacheth the contrary for J knew them that be madde for love and others that dye for the same Q. Wherefore doe Lovers many tim●● take vpon them long Iournies to ridde themselves from love A. Because daily travell in Iournies doe cause new and strange things to appeare able to cause a man to forget lov● I speake nothing of the paines m●●● have nor yet of the new loves that may chance which as one naile doth drive out another so they make and cause them to forget their first Q. Whereof commeth it that many Lovers the more they be ill intreated of their Ladies the more they be inflamed in their Love A. That commeth of a certaine constancy of Nature Or we may well say that all Lovers be not masters over themselves Q. Whereof doth it come that the woman is more Iealous then the man A. Because she is more fearefull and suspicious or else because she loveth with lesse discretion then the man Q. Whether is it more difficult to flye love or to dissemble it when one i● entangled with the same A. He that loveth not at all nor is overcome with any affections can without great paine dissemble love but where love ruleth and mastereth it hath such force that in despite of us he doth manifest and shew himselfe Q. How chanceth it that divers great amities and friendships are upon small occasion turned into great hatred and malice A. That commeth through the lightnesse and inconstancy of Lovers Q. How commeth it that he which 〈◊〉 soone taken with Love doth soone forg●● it A. Hee is like to them that ride 〈◊〉 great gallop and by and by wax●● weary Q. Why be some more given to their ●●kin and of them take more pleasure the●● of other A. For the conformity of blood Q. What meaneth it that although● divers women being of Nature covetous and hold-fast yet cannot giv● themselves to love those that be rich A. They doe that to shew that they will not sell their good grace but 〈◊〉 willing to give it liberally as being 〈◊〉 a noble and gentle Spirit but how many shall ye find of that mind Q Why doe they esteeme it danger o●● to love a man that is faire A. Because that such be most desired or they be of nature more proud the●● other For Beauty is the Mother o● pride Q. Whereof commeth it

Saba made them slothfull and the barrennesse of the Countrey of the Nabathei made them vigilant and industrious Q. Why did Euripides introduct Theseus to consider and talke of all the evils that can happen to man A. Because a stripe foreseene doth hurt a man the lesse Q. VVhat is Mercy properly A. It is a certaine heavinesse arising of another mans griefe which as some say ought not to move the minds of the good but rather they ought to content themselves with their innocency without taking paine or care what the wicked doe sustaine and abide Q. What is Felicity A. It is an abundance of spirituall corporall and earthly goods Q. Why was Archagathus the Surgeon made a Citizen of Rome A. Because hee was very mercifull and cunning in his cures that the like of whom the Romans never saw Q. Why was Antonius the Emperor surnamed Pius A. Because he raigned without effusion of blood and was so mercifull as ever Caesar Alexander or Vespatian was Q. Why doe souldiers love hunting A. Because it is like vnto the warres which is the place where every man may learne to live vertuously Q. Which is the godliest exercise that a man can learne A. Husbandry in which there is not onely profit but pleasure Q. Where is the best walke that can be found A. That walking place which is furnished with wise men Q. Whereof proceeded the great estimation of Homer A. Because his workes are so full of learning and very good to encourage mens hearts to vertue Q. Why were the Greeke Authou●● counted great lyers A. Because they confounded Histories with fables such as Herodotus and Hellanicus be Q. What is the property of Iustice A. To deceive no man even as the property of wisedome is not to be deceived Q. When is it lawfull to lye A. For safegard of the goods or the life of another as Chilo did when he forsware himselfe to save the life of a certaine man Q. What is the property of a glorious man A. To beleeve rather that which is spoken of him although it be false then that which he perceiveth indeed to be in himselfe For that cause was the fable of Iuno and Ixion feigned Q. What is the property of a vile and naughty man A. To hide the truth for feare which never chanceth to the valiant and honest who cannot abide that any man should lye Q. Why did the Poets say that verity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 memory and time A. Because she cannot be long hidden Q. From whence came the wheele that Ixion doth turne continually as the Poets doe feigne A. It is the true token of a common liar who the neerer he thinketh he is to vertue the further he is from it Q. Why did the Egyptians ordain that a vagabond and common Jester should not be taken for a witnesse A. Because such people are not worthy to be regarded and for a little bribe they are ready to all mischiefe Q. Wherefore did the Romans forbid playing for money except it were in warlike exercises as to throw the Bar to Dance to wrastle to vaute to play at defence and other such like pastimes A. Because in other pastimes Fortune ruleth and not vertue Q. Why did Apelles the Painter set his tables abroad for every man to view A. That he might vnderstand mens judgement of his faults As appeared by a Cobler who found fault in a pantofle or slipper which Apelles had made Q. What mischiefes doe Flatterers bring A. They corrupt all good manners they tell lyes in stead of truth they doe evill in stead of good vice in stead of vertue and are ordained to destroy the good and those that doe righteously Q. Why would not Socrates suffer himselfe to be praised of a young man A. Because that praise in presence is a kind of flattery Q. Why did the Romanes so much disdaine Prusias King of Bythinia A. Because he was the greatest flatterer that ever was borne Insomuch that his flatteries were the cause that it was ordained at Rome that no King should come thither without licence of the Senate obtained before Q. What is Flattery properly A. It is a vice proper and particular to vile minds to women and cowards for it proceedeth of nothing else but of feare Q. What is shamefastnesse A. It is a kind of feare to fall into any infamy or to be blamed for any deed doing or to be worthily reprehended for some fault Therefore Cicero did tearme it to bee the Tamer of evill thoughts for she withdraweth man and preserveth him from committing any offence Q. To whom ought a man to bee shamefast A. To children onely for a man of age it is vnmeet to blush and to say I had not thought to doe it Q. Who is he that worthily may be counted valiant A. He that loveth life and feareth not death Q. What is death A. Jt is an end from which a man ought not to retire but to goe to it joyfully and as some say it is a gift given of God to men by a singular grace Q. Why did Mallius say in the oration that he made at Rome against Furius and Aemilius that envy was bleare-eyed and had a very evill sight A. Because that the envious man considereth those things which are next him and not them a farre off which should bee more to be envied if envie were a vertue Q. Why is Envy compared vnto fire A. Because it alwaies mounteth for there is no man so mighty that Envie will sticke to assaile and surmount him also if it be possible Q. VVhat was the cause of the death of Socrates being so innocent a man A. The envie of the Athenians a vsuall thing in that City which caused also the death of Themistocles and Aristides the just Q. Why doe the Poets feigne that Marcias was beaten of Apollo and Thamiras had his eyes put out by the Muses A. To declare that how mighty soever a man be he hath some body that goeth about to make himselfe equall with him which is a passion almost like vnto Envie but not so much different from vertue Q. What was the cause of the sudden death of Diodorus the Sophister A. The thought that he tooke because he could not resolve a questiō that Stilpho the Philosopher put to him in pastime And excessive thought ought not to fall into the heart of a vertuous man Q. What meane the Poets by feigning an Eagle alwaies to gnaw the heart of Prometheus A. To declare the continuall study of Prometheus who was very learned and wise in Astrologie Q. Whereof commeth it that in the time of Ptolome there were found so many Mathematicians in the time of ●erxes so many pleasures in the time of Nero so many Musitians A. Because subjects doe alwaies give their minds to that which pleaseth their Prince Q. Wherein did Vespasian most declare his wicked nature A. Because he surrendred the greatest offices into the hands of the greatest Bribers that afterwards he

that wome● doe greatly hate those that have fors●●●ken them and with greater malice if they carry away any thing of theirs A. The double losse which they receive is the cause Q. Why should we not ground our love upon those that be too young A. Because they be inconstant very bold and ever more curious of new Servants and lovers Q. How chanceth it that most commonly the beautifull desire to have servants and Lovers that be faire And the vertuous those that be vertuous A. Similitude and likenesse doth engender and breed love Q. How is it that they which have a short or dimme sight are more given to love then other A. It may be because they see not the foulnesse and imperfections so well as others Q. Whereof commeth it that ●he Country people doe love peasants better then Citizens A. Because they be more affectioned to their like Q. VVhy doe women appeare fairer by candle light then in the cleare day 〈◊〉 A. Because their painting or beauty doth glister more by candle light the● otherwise even as our body and flesh doth shine more being in the Sunne then in the shadow Q. Which of these were it best to serve a Mayde a married woman or a widow A. The love of the maide is most constant of the widow much more pleasant and of the wedded woman more slanderous and hurtfull Q. Whereof commeth it that many be so amorous of Nunnes A. Because the hidden beauty is most desired and because they be attired and coloured with ten thousand toyes and it seemeth that all their words be so sweet as Sugar and Rose-water Q. Whereof of commeth it that those wh●●h be young are more amorous then other A. Because they trust to receive greater pleasure Q. Wherefore is love painted to be placed betweene slothfulnesse hatred and that Idlenesse goeth before and hatred followeth with wings A. Because Idlenesse doth engender ●ove and of love many times riseth ha●red Q. Whereof commeth it that women which of nature be timorous be neverthelesse strong and hardy in amorous enterprises A. Because Love doth darken their understanding and in things wherein they should be most fearefull doth harden and encourage them Q. Wherof doth it come that old women for the most part are imbraced of ●oung men and that sometimes old men doe sooner enjoy young women A. Old women through experience be very bold and hardy and without any regard imploy themselves upon young men Old men because they be not to be feared and that without suspition they may speake familiarly by good authority by reason of their age doe come for the most part where yong men for nothing that they be able to doe can come Q. What meaneth it that women given to Love ●ee more disposed charmes and enchantments then men A. Of their folly and fond belief● which is the thing principally requir● in charmes and Enchantments An● thereof it commeth that the number 〈◊〉 women witches be greater then men Q. What is it that causeth most t●● union and conjunction of Lovers A. The diversity of complexion cau●seth the effects of Love to be divers A●● most commonly the celestiall influences bee the causes of their union an●● conjunction Q. VVhat doth it meane that simp●● shepheards have beene taken with 〈◊〉 love of some great Lady and Pri●●cesse A. We evermore desire the thing●● which we cannot have But there is y●● a thing more strange to see two pe●●sons of divers fortune the one to dy●● for the other Reade the History of T●●credi in the Pallace of Pleasure Q. VVhereof commeth it that you●● women which be in love are never s●●tisfied in dancing and in all other things they be of feeble complexion A. Immoderate desire of Dancing is ●●veneriall young women and Maidens be subject to Venus So that in such acts they never find themselves molested or wearied Q. From whence commeth it that Love maketh vs solitary and pensive A. Love as Ovid doth write is full of feare and care And it partaineth to the fearefull to bee solitary and pensive Q. What is the cause that many doe esteeme themselves not to bee well loved if Iealousie be not mixed with Love A. The feare which they have to lose ●he thing that they love doth cause the Lover to be more cherished Q. What causeth many men although they be faire● young rich and fresh 〈◊〉 be Jealous of the least wretch they ●●ee A. It may come of their owne con●●it Or for that they know the light●●esse of their Mistresse behaviour Q. Wherefore doe women require above all things their Servants aud ●●vers to be secret A. Love being discovered there 〈◊〉 not so great pleasure besides that Lo●● disclosed can bring nought else b●● damage and travell and sometimes danger of death as may be reade in the ●●cond Tome of the Pallace of Pleasure almost ready to the Print Of a Lady 〈◊〉 Burgundy Q. Whereof commeth it that Love●● delight so much in Musicke A. Musicke is a very vaine thin●● And Lovers alwayes follow after vanity Yet I will not blame all sorts of Musick but that onely which is lascivious an●● doth effeminate the spirits Q. What meaneth it that many d●● love fervently and yet cannot be bel●●ved A. That proceedeth by reason th●● complexions cannot agree Q. How chanceth it that love dot● make men lea●e A. Lovers be in continuall travell which dryeth up the bones by reaso●● whereof they diminish and consum●● themselves Q. What is the cause that the talke Love or fight of the effects thereof in ●●inted Tables make men desirous to ●●ter into his snares A. The pleasures that be past are by ●●ch meanes brought to our memory ●●d so the pleasure is double Q. VVhy doth Love blind vs from ●●eing the imperfections of the thing ●●hich we love A. Love is blind and doth blind o●●ers Q Why is a man many times amo●●ous of a woman vpon her onely fame A. Renowne doth evermore make ●●ings greater then they be And the ●●ind esteemeth things more great by ●●earing then by sight Q. Why doth the earnest view and beholding of a person make a man amorous A. The eyes are the messengers of love ●●ut especially when the beames which proceed from the heart doe unite and conforme themselves to the thing viewed and looked upon Q. What is the occasion that Lovers doe st●dy to apply themselves to the imperfections of their Ladies A. It is the better to resemble them being well assured that conformity 〈◊〉 manners doth engender love Q. How commeth it that women ca●● better perceive and discerne those that be amorous then men A. It may be that they are more expert in the practise of Love as being more subject unto it then men be 〈◊〉 goodly History hereof may be seene in the second Tome of the Pallace of Pleasure of Queene Anne of Hungaria Q. From whence commeth it that amorous Ladies are more liberall th●● they which resist Love A. It is the property of

corruption The urine contrariwise the longer it is retained in the bladder the thicker it waxeth and more filthy Q. Why doth the haire burne so quickly A. Because it is cold and dry Q. Why doe we cover our heads close in cold weather A. The head doth waxe warme when it is kept close for by that meanes the heate is kept in And the kercheffe or hood serveth for the head as the gowne doth for the body Q. Whereof commeth it that bitter Almonds doe keepe one from Drunkennesse A. Because they drye the body and will not suffer the veines to bee filled resisting the strength of the wine Q. Whereof commeth it that women bee not suddenly drunke and old folkes are incontinently overcome with wine A. The wine remaineth longer in the stomackes of old people being dry by nature even as water doth in a Tronke of Wood dry and halfe putrified But women are too cold and ●●moyst by meanes whereof they 〈◊〉 doe better resist the force of the Wine The end of Naturall Questions MORALL AND POLITIQVE Qnestions THE III. BOOKE Question WHy did the Ancient● paint Fortune with a double forehead the one side bald and the other hairy A. The shaven side signifieth adversity the hairy part prosperit● which we enjoy when it pleaseth her Q. What hath moved many to think the seat of the spirit to be placed in the eyes A. Because the opinion of the spirit doe appeare in the eyes Q. Why did the Romanes deeme him hurtfull to the Common-wealth that would not content himselfe with seven yokes of Land A. After the Kings were chased from Rome the Romanes desirous to content themselves with a little to avoid all occasion of Tyranny assigned every Romane Citizen seven yokes of Land and no more Q. Why was it so long before the Romanes did plant any Vines A. Because they foresaw that wine made them dull debilitated their sinues weakned their forces troubled their braines and made them have a stinking breath Q. Whereof commeth it that the Persians breath commonly stinketh A. Because of the diversity of meates and excesse of wines Q Why did the Romans esteeme the men of the Country to be more meet for the warres then the Citizens A. Because the Peasant and Country man is more accustomed to sleepe upon hard places to endure cold and heate hunger and thirst Q. Wherefore is he esteemnd more vilanous and infamous that denieth the thing which is delivered him to keepe then he that rendereth not the thing he borroweth A. Because there is nothing more villanous then a man to doe wrong to his friend for no man delivereth any thing in keeping to any man but to him in whom he hath reposed his greatest trust Q. What meant the Romanes to have no Bakers in their City before the wars of the Persians which was five hundred and fourescore yeares after the building of Rome A. The Romanes esteemed the Science of Baking to be but the worke of women Q. But tell me I pray you why had they no Cookes as we have A. Because they are strong and lusty men not given to delicates which maketh men faint and effeminate Q. How chanceth it that the drowned bodies of men doe swimme vpwards and those of women downewards A. Nature her selfe hath a speciall regard to the honesty of women desirous to cover their secret places Whereof I would it might please God that women themselves had better consideration and regard Q. VVherefore were the Cirthaginians counted deceivers and mockers A. The Scituation of Carthage did cause the same For by reason of the marchandise and traffique which they had with all the Nations of the world they were very much used and frequented to to trompery and deceit Q. But why were the Carthaginians so desirous that all their Magistrates should be rich A. Because they thought that the poore man could not faithfully minister Justice Q. What meant many brave and lusty Nations continually rather to love warre then peace A. Because warre stirreth men to vertue and valour and peace draweth them to idlenesse and all kind of wantonnesse Q. Why have divers men in times past allowed and commended Flattery A. Because Flattery setteth forth before our eyes what wee ought to be Q. Why doth the vice of anger daily displease the wise A. Because it is a spice of Folly and Rage Q. Wherefore ought the vertue of Iustice to be in Princes commendable above all other things A. Because it is the mother of all vertue But what shall be deemed of that Realme that is without Justice if not a very sanctuary of theeves and Pirates Q. Wherefore were they of the Country Campagnia esteemed proud and brave A. Because of the fertilty of the Country and beauty of their Cities Q. Why be the people of Beotia more then any other counted blockheads and asses A. Because they eate too much Q. What moved them of Locris to make a Law that whosoever would goe about by any law or ordinance to establish some new device or innovation in their City ought without remedy the Rope about his necke to recite openly before the people the law which he would establish and the reason wherefore A. That was to chastise and correct those that love novelties and new devises for if the law proposed pleased not the people or was found to be wrongfull and unjust the proposer of the law had no more hurt but suddenly was strangled Which ordinance and decree kept the good City of Locris more then two hundreth yeares in good estate of common-wealth without any alteration and change Q. Why did the ancients in the old time arme their Souldiers onely with the plackard without any other armour A. To cut from them all hope of running away Q. VVherefore did the ancients above all things desire to dye honourably A. Because honourable death covereth the faults of the life past Q. What meant the wise continually to joyne wisedome with puissance A. That puissance might not be converted into tyranny Q. Wherefore did the ancients say that their minds and soules were like unto Lampes A. Because through good instructions they might give light each to other Q. What meant many singularly to comm●nd poverty A. Because it made men industrious and vigilant Q. Why be those that be expert in the Art of warre alwayes blamed if they enter rashly into combat A. Because that the issue of the battels are uncertaine Q. Why did the ancients paint the Image of vertue girded A. To declare that the vertuous man ought to be diligent in his affaires and not slothfull Q. What meaneth it that women are desirous of revenge above all other creatures A. Their weaknesse is the cause Q. Why were the Persians so curious to accustome their children to avoid lying and to tell the truth A. Because they deemed verity to dwell amongst the Gods And that they ought not to premeditate what to say Q. Wherefore ought Intemperance to be avoyded A. Because it bringeth

might have their goods confiscate Q. Why did the Persians ordaine that he which procured to establish new lawes amongst them should be put to death A. That they might alwaies continue in their old customes Q. How may the just and vnjust bee knowne A. By law and not by Nature Q. What is the foundation of Lawes A. Vertue Q. How did Chrysippus paint Justice A. In forme of a Virgin having a severe grave and fearfull countenance yet neverthelesse honourable shame fast humble and full of Majesty Q. What is Nobility without vertue A. It is a thing stuffed with pride and violence Q. Shew me I pray you what things are contrary unto vertue and which are like thereunto A. The contrary of wisedome is foolishnesse and the like to it is subtilty The contrary of Cōstancy is inconstancy and his like obstinacy Strength hath for his contrary feeblenesse of heart and hardinesse for his like Injustice is contrary to Iustice but Cruelty is kin to Iustice Q. Why would not Plato return home to his City although he was greatly required thereunto by the people A. Because they would not vnderstand just and reasonable causes and because he could not get them by any meanes to acknowledge the same Q. What is Innocency A. It is a certaine nature so well ingraven in the heart of a man that it causeth him that he cannot nor may not doe hurt to any man Q. What is he that worthily deserserveth to be called happie A. He that goeth about most of all to resemble God Q. Which be the vertues that doe conduct or bring us to heaven A. Charity faith hope piety Religion and godlinesse Q. What things are contrary to them A. Hatred meredulity dispaire impiety Hipocricy and wickednesse Q. Which are the morall vertues A. Prudence Iustice strength temperance magnanimity magnificence liberality sloutnesse of courage meekenesse innocency continence gravity fidelity and shamefastnesse Q. Which be the vices that are contrary to the said vertues A. Imprudence Injustice fury intemperance pride vain-glory covetousness fearefulnesse choller noysomenesse incontinency rashnesse infidelity and holdnesse Q. Is vertue the soveraigne goodnesse it selfe or the way to attaine thereunto A. It is the Ladder to climbe thereunto Q. May vices be turned into vertues and vertues into vices by the variety ●f the time places and customes or no A. Yea considering the diversity that 〈◊〉 amongst the people in their manner of livings Q. May a young man be wise A. Wisedome commeth not but by long space Q. Nobility doth it proceed of vertue A. Yea and of nothing else Q. What is requisite in an History A. That it declare first the Counsels and after the deed and thirdly the issue called of the Latine Authors Even●●um Q. Why were Lawes established A. To bridle the wickednesse of our minds Q. Which is the most dangerous Ignorance A. Not to know God and afterwards not to know himselfe Q. May a Captaine overcome Fortune with prudence A. Very hardly considering that fortune is by the Poets made a goddesse and placed in heaven Q. Why is vertie so much to be beloved or imbraced A. Because she is conformable to reason Q. VVhy ought not wise men to feare death but rather to desire the same A. Because that our life is nothing else but a prison Q. VVhat Poets are to be eschewed and chased A. Those that write onely to please and delight the eares and to corrupt youth Q. VVhereof consisteth the force of an Army A. Some say that it resteth in councell others in the fortune of the Captaine some say that it consisteth wholly in the hearts of the souldiers other in strong holds and some in that the souldiers be well armed and appointed Q. VVhat warres be lawfull A. Those that be made to obtain peace Q. Why was Octavian the Emperor esteemed happy A. Because he raigned in peace 56. yeares Q. Is it a fable or History that Gyges by vertue of a Ring that he had was made King of Lydia A. If it be true that Polycrates the Tyrant by reason of a stone called a Sardone did avoyd all dangers and if it be credible that Appollonius did live a hundreth and thirty yeares alwaies as it were at the flowre of his age by vertue of seven Rings that Iarcas gave him and if a man may beleeue the two Rings forged by Moses the one for love the other for oblivion and if the Ring of Bacchus be true this History of Gyges may also be beleeved Q. Why did they prepare Arkes and ●ageants of tryumph at Rome A. To stirre men to vertue Q. What was the true meaning of the three Syrenes A. They were three harlo●s which with deceits and with sweetnesse of their voyces vsed to deceive those that were given to Banquets and pleasure Q. Why was the Temple of Diana of Ephesus erected A. Some thinke that it was built by the will of God Some say that it was for Religion and for the pride of men Q. Why is it said that worldly pleasure is like to a Laborinth or Maze A. Because the entry thereof is easie but the comming out very hard Q. Why did Nature make Mercurie A. To make Alchimists fooles and covetous men poore Q. Whereof proceedeth it that the Philosophers of our time are for the most part covetous and of evill life and manners A. They turne vertue into vice because they see Princes to make 〈…〉 account of those that be vertuous Q. Whereof proceedeth the credite that Flatterers have of Princes A. Princes for the most part be great lovers of themselves and therefore doe love those that doe praise them in which point they doe resemble certaine beasts which can scarce see at noone dayes and in the darke their eyes be very cleere Q. Whereof commeth it that dogges doe alwaies barke at those that be ill apparelled ragged and torne like beggers A. Those are the dogs of the Cities accustomed onely to see people richly and well apparelled and contrariwise the Countrey Dogs doe never barke at any peasant or begger Q. Why is wine forbidden women in some Countries A. Because it provoketh lechery a thing very vncomely in women Q. What meaneth this Proverbe Take away the light and every woman 〈…〉 A. Perhaps because they would be all naught if shame fastnesse did not let them Q. Wherof commeth it that for y● most part the learned have very evill sight A. J● commeth of the paper which they doe oftentimes handle for there is nothing more hurtfull to the sight then whitenesse Or else we might rather say that much study doth coole the parts of the body specially those which are colde by nature as the braine the stomacke and hindreth digestion in such wise that by evill digestion 〈◊〉 engendreth in the body and stoppeth the conduit then the eyes a● partakers of such passions are debilitated Q. Of what power is Negromanci●● and Wit●●craft A. If a man may beleeve the dreame of many writers it can stay

the course of the Element and of the Sunne it can make the Moone to be as red as blood appease the windes make the earth to tremble enchant Beasts and cause 〈◊〉 Man or woman to be loved perforce Q. But how can the Negromance doe such strange things A. With perfumes conjuration● ceremonies charmes and characters Q. VVhat is he that is like unto the Image of Sardanapalus A. A man well proportioned of body but of brutish nature Q. VVhat doth Fortune represent with her apple of Gold A. That good spirits are accompanied with good Fortune Q. VVhat meaneth a Plow in the hands of a Labourer A. That travell is the true treasure of man Q. VVhat signifieth a Wolfe carrying a Lambe in his mouth A. A man that careth not what hurt ●e doth to another Q. VVhat betokeneth a man with his Purse open A. That a wise man spareth nothing for his health Q. What signifieth a Ship sunke in the bottome of the Sea A. That the perill of other ought to make us take better heed Q. What doth the Ants carrying of ●orne represent unto us A. Those that live of the sweat of other mens browes They teach us also in youth to provide for age as they in Harvest doe provide to live withall in Winter Q. How may wee represent gratitude and acknowledging of good turnes which we have received A. By a Storke that nourisheth the ●●●mme Q. And great travell with little profit how should we paint that A. By a child that swimmeth Q. What is to be vnderstood by a Serpent A. That an evill disposed person cannot accustome himselfe to goodnesse Q. What signifieth a man that is painted with Gold in the right hand and fire in the left A. That he is not worthy to be a partaker of the felicity which hath done no friendship in time of adversity Q. What doth he betoken that breaketh his head against the wall A. That he esteemeth his life but a little which contendeth with great men Q. VVhat representeth a Quadrant vnto us A. That nothing ought to be done without counsell Q. VVhat is Envie A. An horrible monster Q. VVhere is her habitation A. At the Court. Q. If she should happen to be banished from thence whither would she goe A. To Monasteries and Conuents Q. VVhereof proceedeth it that children doe not love the father so well as the father doth the children A. Love is alwaies advanced and ●oth never turne backe againe especially for the desire that a man hath to make his posterity perpetuall Or rather it proceedeth of this that the father hath nothing of the son but the soone hath and holdeth all of the father Q. Whereof commeth it that although every man is desirous of knowledge yet very few doe apply themselves to scien●es and Art● A. Because to attaine to sciences great ●aine is to be taken and is subject to his pleasure a thing contrary to contemplation or else some doe want the ●ight way and meane to study Q. Why is a Philosopher painted naked A. Because both in verity and Philo●ophy there needeth not coverture but is necessary that all things be handled ●ainly and purely and ought to bee ●oyd of all sophisticall colours and car●all affections Q. Why did Euripides say in his Tragedy entituled Medea that womens wit is unapt to goodnesse but very well inclined to unhappinesse A. Because a Woman is a creature unperfect and where Perfection is not there can rest nothing that is good Q. VVhy is the counsell that a woman giveth upon the sodaine of much estimation and that which she doth devise and study nothing worth A. Even as unreasonable creatures are induced and provoked to their actions without any resistance by a certaine superiour occasion which is Nature even so the Woman although of her selfe she be evill yet the understanding and knowledge that Nature hath given her which will not be deceived no● yet abuse or deceive any person doth provoke her at the first motion to give good advice But if she have leysure by study to follow her own inclination all that she will doe shall be little worth Q. Why be women more covetous the●● men A. Because they 〈…〉 will set by them 〈◊〉 riches Q. Why be reasonable creatures 〈◊〉 short life A. The perfection of transitory thing 〈◊〉 not measured by time for the life of reasonable creatures although it be ●●orter yet is more desired then the life brute beasts Q. Why is death called the last of terrible thiugs A. Because she is terrible both to them ●●t thinke to be immortall and also ill livers and to those that dye of a ●●lent death but not to others Q. Why is sneesing deemed a good ●●ne and not belching A. Because sneesing commeth from ●e head which is as it were the Lord ●●d Ruler of the body Q. Why is it a thing so shamefull 〈◊〉 ill a woman A. Because she is weake and not able resist Q. Why did the Painter Phidias 〈◊〉 Venus setting her feete upon a ●●rtoise A. To declare that a woman of honour is no runner out of the doores but keepeth her selfe within her house Q. VVhereof commeth it that many Ladies have so greatly esteemed the leaves and seed of Agnus Castus A. Because it is enemy to Leache●y Q. Why did nature ordaine that when Bees doe engender no man can see them A. To teach us shamefastnesse and modesty Q. Why are cloathes of silke bette● esteemed then those of wooll A. Because silke is more fine and light better coloured more bright and orient then woollen Q. VVhat is it that breedeth envi● most in man A. To bee sad and Melancholicke Q. VVhat manner of motion hath envie A. Slow and heavie Of what age is she A. Old crooked withered having pale and leane face her tongue infected with poyson Q. From whence commeth the beauty that is in the neckes of Pigeons and in Peacockes feathers A. Of the variety and diversity of colours Q. What is the property of mans heart A. To faigne and dissemble Q. Why is the Camaeleon so marvailous A. Because he transformeth himselfe into all colours Q. Whereof commeth the brightnesse that is in rotten wood A. Nature sheweth us thereby that there is nothing so abject but it hath some vertue Q. VVhat is the property of the Sirenes A. To bring death by singing Q. Wherein consist the effects of vertue A. In words and in deeds Q. How may a man seeme gentle in his behaviour A. By his gate or going by countenance by his manner of living and above all things by his civility Q. How are secret advertisements disclosed A. By letters by weapons in love and by courses of armes Q. How must a man doe reverence A. By putting off his cappe and bowing downe his head Q. How ought a man to obey his superiours A. With fidelity goodwill devotion feare and hope Q. How is a man modest in his behaviours A. When his hand is on his stomacke his eyes